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Why? Is it for a rational reason? Have you tried using their gear?
It was Windows Phone that finally pushed me onto iOS and Windows 8 that convinced me to move to MacOS.
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Why? Is it for a rational reason? Have you tried using their gear?
My personal phone is a Lumia 830 upgraded to 10. Work is giving me an iPhone for work related stuff and I hate that interface with a passion:
-One button at bottom, I'm all confused when I need to press back to go to previous screen;
-All apps are always on the desktop, WP and Android both have customized list of apps on desktop and an all apps list which makes things easier.
And Android, I've got a tablet for apps I don't find on Windows Phone but I end up using it only to play games (these are basically the apps I don't have on WP).
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Martin Plamondon wrote: One button at bottom, I'm all confused when I need to press back to go to previous screen
Never found that a problem - had Android with a back button, seemed ok. Windows Phone back button was something else though, here's what I experienced:
* Open an app other than IE
* Open IE, go to a page (A), click a link to get to the next page (B).
* Open another app
* Go back to IE, click back - it takes you out of IE to the previous app. Click back again.. now what? Can I get back to page (A) in IE? If I remember right, I don't think I could, it just took me back to the previous app. Terrible design, hopefully they've changed that in later versions?
Martin Plamondon wrote: All apps are always on the desktop, WP and Android both have customized list of apps on desktop and an all apps list which makes things easier
So your apps are displayed in a list rather than a grid? Hardly sounds like a deal breaker especially as you still like your favourite apps displayed in a grid.. It's probably a personal preference thing but I never liked the text-based screens in Windows Phone, just didn't seem to work design-wise on a mobile device.
Apple isn't perfect, far from it. I hate not having proper active widgets like Android on the desktop (why do I need to open the weather app to see what the current weather is like - yeah, yeah, changed somewhat in iOS 10, but still not exactly what I was hoping for ).
The way apps are suspended on iOS doesn't seem to be as good as it was before, the battery meter is unreliable and some apps like the music app just seem to keep getting worse - Apple isn't the same since Jobs went.
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Thats "Harry" Tuttle - Brazil
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Very similar to being a software developer these days
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Tine Svete wrote: slowly
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I believe, with count out the duplicates, I make 25.
Truth,
James
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Shameel wrote: Single Hand mode
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Box of tissues included free.
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I think you activated the one-handed mode[^] (what a weird name). I've never used it though, as I could reach the entire screen area even with one hand. But some people swear by it to be a very nice feature.
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Is this for "one handed surfing"?
If so, it explains a lot about Windows Phone users...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Its a feature and not a bug.
How typical.
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Personally, I love my Windows Phone. Haven't moved to 10 yet, still using 8.
Between the members of my family we cover all the bases, and having used all 3, I think the Windows UI is the friendliest.
So, please keep on using that Windows Phone.
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littleGreenDude wrote: Haven't moved to 10 yet
littleGreenDude wrote: I love my Windows Phone
Then don't There are a lot of usability improvements in 10, but built-in apps are much less stable then those on 8. Also new Map app is worse then Here Maps
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How do you like the phone overall? I'm thinking about moving over to one since I won't buy Apple products and I am concerned about recent firey Samsung design flaws.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Foothill wrote: How do you like the phone overall?
Personally, I think there is nothing major wrong with Windows 10 or Nokia.
Minor UI glitches but overall its a good phone.
Pity they've sold out and closed (sort of).
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If Samsung is your main concern with Android, have you checked out HTC? The HTC 10 is pretty spiffy, and has expandy memory and fantastic sound through the headphone jack that most certainly needs to be there and is. Camera is OK but not the best.
I'm not really a fanboy, but I've had the HTC One and now I have the 10 and I find them to be a great alternative to Samsung.
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- Another 2 - my wife loves Windows Phones, but when she needed a new one last month there was only 1 Win10 Phone to buy from our Provider ;( - Anyway she is happy now - just to explain the resent Peak (+1) in sold devices
It gives you a warm feeling if you buy a WP - you feel like you have donated for the poor
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So nice to hear that I'm not the only one who likes Windows Phones. I'm on my second and I really like it. I've got an iPad and my wife has an Android phone nut I just prefer the UI of the WP. The poor app support is a pain sometimes and in the UK the BBC iPlayer radio app is very poor but I've found apps to do all the things I want to do.
I fear Microsoft is going to leave me high and dry though.
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SLHenwood wrote: I fear Microsoft is going to leave me high and dry though.
Yes we are the last lot of supporters whom the 'non Microsoft' world curse as being idealistic.
And we might end up being dumped by Microsoft too.
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That drove me crazy the first time it happened.
All modern devices seem to NOT come with instructions.
It's ridiculous that someone has to go to a non-company forum to find answers to things.
(Started out with WP on an HTC, then went Lumia 900, then 1520, and now 950XL. I had to have Microsoft replace the 950XL because I kept getting hardware errors on it. Aside from having to drive to Austin, no problem.)
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Count one more Windows 10 phone user. Never had a smartphone (or cell phone) before that. Got my Lumia 640 about a month ago, $122 completely unlocked and delivered to my door.
As I may have written already in another post: It's a better MP3 player than every other player I've ever used in the past. It's a better camera than my $250 camera. It's a better GPS than my $120 GPS. You get the picture. This is how I use it - what's not to like?
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count me in as an owner... I have a Win 10 Lumina 950 and a Band 2... had the Nokia 1020 before this. LOVED that phone! with today's announcement that the band is killed, I am really feeling like an orphan. looks like it just a matter of time for the phone. it's really a shame the phone is so much better than the competition, but the lack of good apps will kill it.
Did you know there were more features of the Band supported on Apple and Android devices than on the Windows Phones? (like meal tracking for one) It seems M$ only makes a half hearted attempt whenever they try something new.
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Last week I wrote my first two tiny, Hello World type Android apps, learned to use, and enjoy, LibreCAD, amongst other dev projects.
This week I will focus on R&D for Android apps to control my Raspberry Pi and attached add-ons. I think there is a lot of commercial value their; there are so, so many custom systems that use the Pi for a great variety of things. I think the majority only have a Linux terminal, or Putty on Windows, to talk to the Pi.
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I've been playing around with Javascript loaders. I'm currently in Australia with crap bandwidth so it's a great opportunity (I tell myself) to test loading speed.
The prevailing wisdom is never use the blocking document.write for loading scripts. Also, always, have scripts in the HEAD, not the body. And floss twice a day. And never walk under a ladder, it'll give you bad luck.
Basically web optimisation is like search engine optimisation: lots of rules, lots of old wives tales, sometimes actual data, and more often than not it's totally and utterly out of date.
HeadJS is a loader and they provide an excellent test page for a script loaded at the top, at the bottom of a page, and via HeadJS. It's meant to show HeadJS is way faster. Which it is in IE and Edge.
In Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari HeadJS is dramatically slower. Browsers continue to improve and the hacks we use one year are completely unnecessary (and sometimes detrimental) the next year.
Unless you're on IE or Edge.
Isn't it about time they simply joined forces with WebKit or even Blink and just helped the world have a single, fast, compatible browser? They've embraced everything else.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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